An Emotional Roadmap For Men
A 6 week course on Tuesdays (beginning 19th May), 19.00-20.30
When: Tuesdays (19th May – 23rd June), 19.00-20.30
Where: Kings Road Yard, Pontcanna
This is a 6 week course designed to help you build a more practical and harmonious relationship with your emotions.
The greater your ability to fully understand all aspects of yourself, the greater your ability to relate to both yourself and others.
Ultimately this course is interested in enhancing our ability to be good men.
The more peace and balance we enjoy within ourselves, the more we are able to show up for the people we love, and our wider community, in a way that is as positive and impactful as possible.
Our lack of awareness and understanding of our emotions, and how they impact both our mental and physical wellbeing, is the number one thing that disrupts that peace and balance within ourselves.
This course is built to address that.
Over these 6 weeks you will:
- Develop a greater awareness and understanding of your emotions
- Explore how emotions affect your mind and your body
- Discover how to fully process emotions in the body, as opposed to staying stuck in loops in your mind
- Learn how repressed emotions negatively effect your life in different ways
- Uncover the emotional wounds that create issues in your relationships
- Experience connection and community with your fellow men
The itenary will be as follows:
Week 1 – Understanding Ourselves
- What are emotions?
- How emotions show up in the body and in the mind
- How to process and interpret our emotional experience
- Connecting to the body
Week 2 – Repressed Emotions
- Signs and symptoms of repressed emotion
- The hidden pain at the root of our personality traits
- Endlessly seeking distraction
- Opening up repressed emotions
Week 3 – Anger And Sadness
- The link between anger and sadness
- Boys don’t cry
- Healthy and unhealthy expressions of anger
- What happens when these emotions are repressed?
Week 4 – Shame And Guilt
- Distinguishing between useful and un-useful experiences of shame and guilt
- How these emotions show up when repressed
- False beliefs about self and other
- Shame and guilt in relationships
Week 5 – Anxiety And Depression
- Anxiety and depression as emotional states
- Anxiety and depression as nervous system responses
- Suicidal thoughts
- Anxiety and depression as a compass
Week 6 – Emotions And Our Relationships
- Communicating how we feel
- When our emotional wounds get triggered
- Emotions and our ability to connect
- How to experience more love
This is not a course that seeks to feminise men.
We are not here to be more like women, rather we are here with the aim of becoming better men.
Our lack of emotional awareness and expression, despite our misguided belief that this makes us weak, actually hampers our ability to display strong and healthy masculine traits, and so there is much to be gained as men, from having a more practical and workable relationship with what is an unavoidable aspect of our experience.
As a society as a whole, we suffer for our lack of understanding of how to relate to our emotions, but this is especially prevalent amongst men, and is exacerbated by our natural inclination to want to resist help and do it all on our own. In general, this is a good trait to foster within ourselves as men. Sometimes however, a little bit of help can go a long way.
My aim with this course is to provide you with that little bit of help, and to support you in building a more complete understanding of yourself so that you can enjoy a more peaceful and harmonious experience of self, ultimately with the aim of allowing you to show up for the people in your life, and in your community, in the most loving way possible.